Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba has celebrated a successful court appeal over the decision to strike her off after she was convicted of the manslaughter of a six-year-old boy in her care.

She was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after Jack Adcock died from sepsis at Leicester Royal Infirmary, but doctors rallied against a decision to remove her from the medical register.

Court of Appeal judges on Monday overturned a High Court decision to strike off the trainee paediatrician after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (MPT) last year gave her the lesser punishment of a year's suspension.

After the victory, Dr Bawa-Garba told the BBC's Panorama programme: "I'm very pleased with the outcome but I want to pay tribute and remember Jack Adcock, a wonderful little boy that started the story.

"I want to let the parents know that I'm sorry for my role in what has happened to Jack."

She also thanked the public, as well as fellow doctors who protested against the General Medical Council's (GMC) decision to take the case to the High Court to get her struck off.

Jack Adcock, who Doctor Hadiza Bawa-Garba was found guilty of causing his death (Image: PA)

Dr Bawa-Garba told Panorama: "My hope is that lessons learnt from this case will translate into better working conditions for junior doctors, better recognition of sepsis, factors in place that will improve patient safety."

Doctors, who welcomed the fresh ruling, argued Dr Bawa-Garba's case raised issues in the NHS such as dangerous levels of understaffing, employees being forced to work in inappropriate conditions and the failure of IT systems.

The boy with Down's syndrome and a heart condition, from Glen Parva, Leicestershire, died in 2011.

Dr Bawa-Garba was given a suspended two-year prison sentence after a trial.

The tragedy took place at Leicester Royal Infirmary (Image: PA)

The judge at Nottingham Crown Court said she and a nurse on duty at the time did not give "Jack the priority which this very sick boy deserved".

The MPT ruled a suspension was sufficient, but the GMC disagreed and took the case to the High Court, where judges ensured she was struck off in June last year.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton and Lady Justice Rafferty have now ruled that Dr Bawa-Garba's name should be immediately restored to the medical register while the MPT reviews her suspension, which remains in place for the time being.

Dr Bawa-Garba spoke to Panorama's Doctors On Trial programme, scheduled to air on BBC One on Monday at 8.30pm.